When do you think new TLDs will be available for registration?
Another ICANN meeting has wrapped up. Blows were dealt to many, but some progress was made. With EOI off the table, the focus is on settling the “overarching issues”. The intellectual property constituency, which didn’t show up to Nairobi, was perhaps the biggest winner.
New TLDs are going to happen. It’s a matter of when.
During Domainer Mardi Gras, I asked my panel when they thought new TLDs would actually be available. More specifically, when will be I be able to go to a domain name registrar and register a new domain name and start using it?
The earliest estimate was April 2011, with the latest September 2012. With the latest information coming out of Nairobi, when do you think the first new TLD will become available for registration?
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My crystal ball is no better than Michael Palage’s, but I think that (a) the next DAG will address all the “overarching issues” that have been open for too long (May/June 2010); (b) ICANN will accept comments on the next DAG in Brussels through the early fall and approve the Applicant Guidebook at the ICANN annual meeting in Dec. 2010; (c) the AG will be published in Jan/Feb 2011; (d) ICANN will begin accepting applications in Q3 2011; (e) first applications will be approved in Q2 2012; (f) registrations of names in new TLDs will start resolving in latter part of 2012.
Your Magic 8-Ball may deliver different predictions.
— Bret